Is this thing as sketchy as it seems? The organization seems to be positioning itself as a way to verify you’re a real live human online, something about blockchain, doesn’t store your data, etc. Does anyone know more about it? I’m interested in how they make money and/or who is funding this project. They say the right things but seem to be hiding who is supporting them.
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So let me get this straight… This is Altman’s solution to Altman’s problem…
this guy wants or wanted to create an Ai that can act, think and sound like a human (by stealing peoples work), and then he went (secretly mind you) to create this Worldcoin system for us to tell who’s an Ai and who’s a real human online, and guess how he’s going to do it? browser cookies! nope… 👉 Biometric data 👈
Yeah, right… How do I do that? well find the nearest orb, that’s all
Ok, ok… But why would people want to give us their eyeballs? Aaahaa so we can pay them with our worthless token that will never be truly decentralized, because we control all the nodes
That’s it… this guy wants to build a surveillance blockchain, phew… these tech billionaires man… I tell you, they’re really the real life villains…
People if you want to use a blockchain that you can actually benefit from, use ones that are proven to work and are battle tested, truly decentralized, and transparent, Bitcoin and Monero… maybe Zcash… And maybe run your own Monero Node (it’s only 80Gb) out of spite like I do
Also, since he can’t launch it in most countries due to privacy regulations, this whole project is now nothing more than a few places in India where homeless people line up to get $5 for a scan of their eye.
I wouldn’t celebrate just yet, and do most countries have good privacy regulations that benefit their citizens? idk about that… In fact I doubt it… but I guess he can sell it to governments as an investment, something they can benefit from themselves… look Poland made the deal, and it wasn’t the first, it’s the 39th on the list
Note: When using a pruned Monero node you can reduce the size from 80GiB to ~25GiB
Yes, but if you have the disk space go for a full node
If this is the eye-scanning orb bullshit, stay far, far away.
Related, so yes.
Sam Altman, the founder of OpenAI, and yes, it is just as crazy as it sounds. I would not touch this with a 1 million foot pole. Stay far far far away. If you want a blockchain currency, buy Monero.
Hello, World!
More like “Get the fuck out, World!”
Sam Altman and Andreessen Horowitz involvement should be all you need to know. But the reality is probably less dystopian than some people make it out to be. World to me just seems to be Altman trying to sell a solution to the problem that he’s trying to create with OpenAI (chatbots that are indistinguishable from humans).
They lost me at Iris biometrics.
Yes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_(blockchain)